The Latest Breaking News from Behavior

The Milky Way's Black Hole is Devouring a 278 Trillion Mile Gas Cloud

It could give us a front row seat to elusive black hole behavior.

Inverse · Feb 27, 2023

How frontotemporal dementia, the syndrome affecting Bruce Willis, changes the brain – research is untangling its genetic causes

Around 55 million people worldwide suffer from dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, the actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a rare type of dementia that typically affects people ages 45 to 64. In contrast to Alzheimer’s, in which the major initial symptom is memory loss,…

The Conversation · Feb 22, 2023

Why Republicans are so easily triggered

Curiously, it is the same reason why they are best equipped for the meme wars

Salon · Feb 22, 2023

Editorial: The first emergency: Teen mental health must be addressed to fix anything else

The past few years have gotten us used to bad news from the Centers for Disease Control, and this week was more of the same, yet this time it had nothing to do with COVID. The agency’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that about one in three high-school age girls…

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2023

Accused NYC attacker was unstable, violent in Las Vegas, records show

LAS VEGAS — Weng Sor showed signs of bizarre and apparently mentally ill behavior in Las Vegas in the years before he was accused of using a U-Haul truck to kill one person and injure eight in a rampage earlier this week in New York City.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2023

10 things to know about how social media affects teens' brains

Eye-opening testimony from a top scientist offers a useful primer on the role social media may play in the teen mental health crisis.

WEKU · Feb 16, 2023

Do elementary school students do better when taught by teachers of the same race or ethnicity? New research finds: Not that much

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The Conversation · Feb 16, 2023

Insect Bites Reveal the Origins of an Elusive Plant Behavior

Symmetrical bite marks on leaf fossils reveal that some species have been sleeping with their leaves closed for at least 250 million years.

Inverse · Feb 16, 2023

N Mexico St AD gets vote of confidence after hoops shutdown

The chancellor at New Mexico State expressed his confidence in athletic director Mario Moccia less than a week after the men’s basketball team was shut down for what the chancellor said was a culture of bad behavior, egregious violations of the student code of conduct and other “despicable acts.”

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2023

Audit denounces French soccer boss Le Graët for harassment

A government audit says Noël Le Graët no longer has legitimacy to remain as French soccer federation president because his management style and behavior toward women are “incompatible with the exercise of his functions."

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2023